Stock Car Racing

Some people are just getting the memo that Kyle Busch is the best speed-racer on the NASCAR planet. Welcome to the party, even though all that's left is some stale Cheetos and a warm Miller Lite. Think back to the start of last season when Busch went for an unintended spin in the Sprint Unlimited. Busch's car went sideways, turned down toward the infield, got clipped by Brad Keselowski's car, stayed sideways for a while, went onto the grass and then recalibrated, with Busch straightening out things to get on the right track again. Oh, and he ended up fishing third. "I was in race control upstairs and everybody there was going, 'Oh, my gosh, he saved it,'...

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Some people are just getting the memo that Kyle Busch is the best speed-racer on the NASCAR planet. Welcome to the party, even though all that's left is some stale Cheetos and a warm Miller Lite.
Think back to the start of last season when Busch went for...

Kyle Busch is the best driver in NASCAR.
Period. End of discussion.
His victory at Indianapolis in the Brickyard 400 Sunday -- overtaking Kevin Harvick in the closing laps –- simply fuels the legend of man and machine.
Busch, driving in his M&M and...

Kyle Busch belongs in the Chase.
No one needs to have a roundtable discussion or fret about perception or bring the case before Judge Judy.
Busch, despite missing 11 of the first 19 races because of severe leg injuries from a crash at Daytona, has won...

Tony Stewart is in a funk. A blurry haze of frustration. Inexplicable ineptitude.
He looks at the pit stall of his No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet and sees a brick wall.
"We're desperately trying to figure out what it's going to take to move...

Austin Dillon's protective HANS device feels like his Superman cape.
While America watched in horror as his stock car went tumbling up and down Daytona International Speedway, Dillon had a quick thought: "Hold on! hold on!" Seconds later, it...

Move NASCAR race
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Someone is going to die again at a...

DAYTONA BEACH – A night after he won a prelim race and playfully took a sliding belly-flop in the infield, Austin Dillon experienced the frightening flip side of his sport 24 hours later.
This time Dillon, 25, climbed out of his demolished Chevy and...

DAYTONA BEACH – The mangled car disintegrated across the track, small pieces scattering into the stands, the engine plopping on the grass, just as winner Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Chevy had crossed the finish line.
Right behind him, Hendrick Motorsports...

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Gloomy but hoping for a rainbow.
Rain delayed the start of Sunday night's Coke Zero 400, but that gave hardy fans more...

DAYTONA BEACH — Kyle Busch was at a nearby hospital, still withering in pain, when Daytona International Speedway president Joie Chitwood offered up a powerful mea culpa in February:
"We're going to fix this. And it starts right now."
...

DAYTONA BEACH — The race is essentially a souped-up version of driver's ed.
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They one day hope to...

DAYTONA BEACH — Thumbs up, crew chief Greg Ives.
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"I asked Greg before we went out for that first practice what we were trying...

DAYTONA BEACH — Kyle Busch actually looked forward to returning to the Daytona International Speedway and "attacking that demon per se."
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Television networks pay sports...

DAYTONA BEACH — NASCAR will not return to a Donald Trump property in Miami for the season-ending Camping World trucks and Xfinity Series postseason awards ceremony in South Florida.
"We have made the decision we will not be going to the Trump...

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